HUNTING SWEETIE ROSE

by Jack Fredrickson

A featured alternate selection of the Mystery Guild

"In Fredrickson's excellent third mystery featuring unlicensed -- and unorthodox -- Chicago PI Dek Elstrom... readers will root for Elstrom... with his quirky sense of humor, quick intelligence, and essential sweetness... every step of the way." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"Jack Fredrickson is one hell of a writer. This is a book that satisfies on every level ." - William Kent Krueger

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Minotaur books
(February 28, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312605269
ISBN-13: 978-0312605261

Coming February 2012

Sweetie Fairbairn. Doyenne of Chicago society, known for big-hearted philanthropy and magnificent soirees in a penthouse high atop one of the city's premier boutique hotels.

EXCERPT

A clown. Not known for much beyond blue polka-dots and a big red nose. And going off another roof, in the city's factory district. A suicide. Or a victim.

And Dek Elstrom. Known to hate not knowing, hired by a big man with a fat wallet and a long limousine, to investigate the death of the clown, and to ask any question except one:

Did Sweetie Fairbairn ever exist at all?

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More reviews for Hunting Sweetie Rose:

"Fast, funny and wonderfully plotted, Jack Fredrickson's latest, Hunting Sweetie Rose, is a great read and one that shouldn't be missed. "  
- Michael Harvey, author of The Third Rail

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And, coming in 2013, unless it can be delayed,

Two Coats For
The Dead Master

- The fourth Dek Elstom Mystery